Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and Root CAs

2013-01-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 31 December 2012 19:44:32 Rich Freeman wrote: > The certificates that Gentoo distributes have at least been vouched > for by somebody who is a part of our community, which is more than can > be said for most of the upstream certificates. mmm, Gentoo ships ca-certificates which comes dire

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and Root CAs

2013-01-01 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/1/13 2:51 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > IMO it would probably be good to limit our CA roots to Mozilla's > libnss selection by default and perhaps add a packaged selection of > secondary CA's (like CACert) for those who are so inclined. I think that's a good idea: make it easy to only use the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and Root CAs

2013-01-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> The certificates that Gentoo distributes have at least been vouched >> for by somebody who is a part of our community, which is more than can >> be said for most of the upstream certifi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and Root CAs

2013-01-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> The certificates that Gentoo distributes have at least been vouched >> for by somebody who is a part of our community, which is more than can >> be said for most of the upstream certifi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and Root CAs

2013-01-01 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > The certificates that Gentoo distributes have at least been vouched > for by somebody who is a part of our community, which is more than can > be said for most of the upstream certificates. And you think "vouched for" by some community member

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and Root CAs

2012-12-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > Now before you reply, RTFA. Also note that while my own opinion > on the matter is irrelevant, I _do_ think that his concerns need > to be addressed, particularly the second half of his statement. SSL Certificate Authorities are a mess.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo and Root CAs

2012-12-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:42:39 +0100 Tobias Klausmann wrote: > I _do_ think that his concerns need > to be addressed, particularly the second half of his statement. Whilst I agree that if it does debians system shouldn't undermine mozillas. I think the latest efforts are a pointless bandaid but I

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo and Root CAs

2012-12-31 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hey, Ryan Sleevi, who's working on Chromium and is familiar with other project's Root Cert programs has written an article on how he perceives assorted distributions handle Root CAs: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105761279104103278252/posts/eVdB6X3NpPg """ [...] Debian: From [5]. According to READ